The art minute

Painter and fashion photographer known in the 1990s for his work made about colors forty years earlier, Saul Leiter has always used his camera lens as a brush.

Woodcut from around 1515, the Rhinoceros of Albrecht Dürer became a naturalist illustration icon, inspiring many artists until the beginning of the twentieth century.

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From Arcachon to Cap Ferret, from Andernos to l’Ile aux oiseaux, between land and sea, the light and reflections of the bay are endless sources of inspiration for the artists who have succeeded one another on its banks and dunes.

Gifted sculptor forever linked to Auguste Rodin of whom she was the muse and the unhappy mistress, Camille Claudel is an artist who has never had the recognition she deserved.

By opening the doors of « haute couture » to art, Yves Saint Laurent is definitely the designer who best tribute to artists he admired. The famous Mondrian dress from the 1965-1966 collection has become one of the most popular item of clothing in the world.

Man with a dazzling destiny, damned artist of his time, Egon Schiele that crossed the history of art as a comet, is one of those terrible children that today Austria nevertheless likes to pay tribute alongside the Masters Mozart, Freud, Klimt, Zweig and others.

Born in the early 1980s, full of energy and inundated of colors, the Free Figuration movement highlights an extravagant and amazing art.

Spiritual and artistic adventure of Kasimir Malevich, the Suprematism is a form of painting freed from any representation in which forms and especially colors are used only for what they are themselves.

Founded in 1905, the group Die Brücke is a collective of German artists at the origin of the Expressionism in Germany. Let’s look back at the story of these four founders between bright colors, linocuts and empty butchery.

In 1982, Thierry Noir abandoned Lyon for West Berlin where he settled in a squat of artists a few meters from the wall. Famous as the first to have dared to paint on it, let’s see a feedback about the colorful story of the mural frescos’ pope.

In Burma, the contemporary art scene opens its eyes as the country discovers democracy. A revolution for the freedom of expression which was illusory on these forgotten lands.

Master of abstraction, Mark Rothko has, for more than three decades, marked the history of painting with a particular, mysterious and brilliant touch, like his canvases, a skilful blend of dazzling colors and luminous voids.

Usually away from the historic hotspots of classical or contemporary Art, Argentina is beginning to take more and more place on the world stage. Its artistic scene is growing, from Buenos Aires to Mar Del Plata. Let’s discover three artists who make their mark, in their way, in the contemporary albicelest scene.

The wild landscapes of Canadian lands have inspired generations of artists, but no one as much as Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Let’s go travel between grandiose lakes, solitary trees and bright colors.